Firsts Quotes

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

One must first learn to fall if one would fly.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a little bit worried.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

Syndicate is technically the first game I worked on.

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

That’s right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren’t weird?

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

There is one thing that motivates me. It is the global glory of God. I am first and foremost a missionary. I am an evangelist and a missionary.

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.